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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Odd Velvet

by Mary E Whitcomb

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ISBN10: 0811820041
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Velvet is odd. Instead of dolls that talk and cry, Velvet brings a milkweed pod for show and tell. She wins the class art contest using only an eight-pack of crayons. She likes to collect rocks. Even her name is strange-Velvet But as the school year unfolds, the things Velvet does and the things that Velvet says slowly begin to make sense. And, in the end, Velvet's classmates discover that being different is what makes Velvet so much fun.
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rlindsey-armstrong, September 22, 2009 (view all comments by rlindsey-armstrong)
This is a lovely book on many levels. The illustrations are beautiful and unique! The content was very appropriate...I read it to my college students who are studying Support Children with Special Needs. This book speaks about anyone who is different and I really like the way it doesn't identify what her differences are, just that she is different. It was a good segue into my first lecture on the human rights of people with disabilities.
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ISBN:
9780811820042
ill.:
King, Tara Calahan
Author:
King, Tara Calahan
Author:
Whitcomb, Mary E.
Publisher:
Chronicle Books
Location:
San Francisco, Calif. :
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Children's fiction
Subject:
Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks
Subject:
Social Situations - General
Subject:
Schools
Subject:
School & Education
Subject:
Schools -- Fiction.
Subject:
Social Issues - General
Subject:
Individuality
Copyright:
1998
Publication Date:
August 1998
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
Primary
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
32
Dimensions:
916x932x43 86
Age Level:
03-08
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